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Piles of Tesla owners stranded at charge stations abandons their EV's.

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fourfathom:

--- Quote from: floobydust on January 18, 2024, 07:43:46 pm ---I worked on an old vehicle that has no diodes, no transistors, no semiconductors - at all.
That was an uh huh moment at how far corporate overreach and monopoly building has gone.
It would survive EMP, works fine at -30°C and doesn't vampire suck monthly payments out of a person.
No safety features but you can drive.

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Following this thread I was thinking of my old 1960's VW Bug.  I could keep that thing running with just a set of socket wrenches and a couple of screwdrivers.  Now eventually the gaskets will degrade and brake pads wear out, but when the rings/sleeves/bearings go I guess it's all over without a functioning machine shop.  Horses do start to sound pretty good, and manufacturing more horses is pretty low-tech.

But by then the zombies would probably have eaten my brain...

Re: EVs in the cold, we've got relatives in Finland, and a few weeks ago it was *COLD* (even for Finland in the winter).  We saw stories of many Teslas stranded on the roads; because of the reduced range they ran out of juice before they could reach a charging station.

SiliconWizard:
There is like zero question that any simple ICE vehicle is more "resilient" than any EV. Even if there was no access whatsoever to official gas or diesel fuel (and if things get hairy, people will just start getting fuel out of abandoned vehicles for quite a while), you can pretty easily make your own fuel and at least run your vehicle for a good while. Diesel engines, particularly the simpler ones (as opposed to the high-pressure stuff that is more recent), can run on vegetal oil without a problem. Actually many people have been doing this, at least occasionally, for years. And of course, they can run at much lower temperatures than EVs.

Marco:
It still boggles my mind that not one manufacturer offers a low temperature package consisting of vacuum insulation panels for the battery (obviously only works with water cooling)

Marco:
SiliconWizard, you just need to be on an operating farm with an oil extraction mill and/or fermentation tank and still. Obviously this applies to pretty much everyone.

BrianHG:

--- Quote from: Andy Chee on January 18, 2024, 11:21:34 am ---You can charge your EV from waste cooking oil as well!



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Cooking oil can be clean filtered and run through most diesel engines with perhaps some adjustments.  So, if you want to use waste cooking oil from your fryers and don't mind your exhaust smelling like french fries, why don't we skip EV and use normal diesel ICE cars powered by our fast food waste?  The technology already exists...

Wait a minute, cooking oil's pollutants, the un-burned particulates which are exhausted, are actually really unhealthy for our lungs... 

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